South Africa's Eskom will cut 3,000 megawatts of power in controlled outages, known locally as loadshedding, from 5:30 p.m.

Nowhere is the trend towards resource nationalism more advanced than in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, the heart of Africa’s ...

An Indian drug maker tells a BBC undercover team its addictive cocktail drug is “very harmful” but “this is business”.

Florence Makumene held a plastic container of HIV medication and wondered if it would be her last as fears swelled of a ...

Foreign ministers and senior diplomats from leading rich and developing countries focused on global conflicts, including the ...

India’s Opioid Kings, a new documentary from the BBC World Service’s award-winning BBC Eye Investigations team, has revealed ...

South Africa is set to host Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on a state visit, President Cyril Ramaphosa confirmed on X ...

The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference has called for “racial reconciliation” in response to ongoing tension ...

South Africa’s budget announcement by the finance minister has been abruptly canceled and rescheduled for next month over a ...

South Africa's official unemployment rate fell slightly in the fourth quarter of last year, helped by job gains in the ...

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent won’t travel to the Group of 20 finance ministers meeting in South Africa next week as he ...

South Africa kicked off the two-day G-20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Johannesburg on Thursday to address solidarity, ...